Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Pope Francisis the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth17 December 1936
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.
The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.
Poverty is the center of the gospel.
I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.
In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.
In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that people’s value is not measured by their possessions or how much money they have in the bank. A poor person, a person lacking material possessions, always maintains his or her dignity. The poor can teach us much about humility and trust in God.
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.